Strength and Skill Quotes in Breaking Dawn

Edward seems to think that Bella is trying to show him that she's stronger than he believes her to be. How much of her decision to have the baby while she is human might have to do with Bella's need to prove her human stamina to Edward?

Alice's self-confidence is closely tied to her special power of foreseeing the immediate future.

Equipped with her new superior senses, Bella perceives the most ordinary things in the human world, like a speck of dust, as suddenly something extraordinary.